Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter

Making a Metaverse That Matters
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recent posts
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- Want to Go On-Together? A New Virtual World for Real Life Coworking
- All the World’s Avatars (1 Billion & Counting)
- Gamers Overwhelmingly Hate Gen AI in Games, Major Industry Report Finds — Here’s Why!
- Why Do Gamers Generally Prefer Fantasy Virtual Worlds Over Sci-Fi MMOs?
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Category: VRChat
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Via SteamDB Remember in early 2018 when VRChat had a brief hype phase thanks to various YouTube and Twitch streamers and fairly juvenile/offensive memes and thanks to both, hit a peak concurrency of over 20,000 on Steam? After that, concurrency promptly dropped back down and many assumed its high point had long since gone. Since…
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I'm not sure why many insist on assuming VRChat's graphics options are low end or limited when I keep coming across walkthrough videos like this: A humanoid cat called Coopertom exploring a jaw-droppingly realistic Airbnb in VRChat. The least surprising part of that sentence is "humanoid cat", as furries seem to dominate the cutting edge…